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Mesoscale Discussion 964

June 30, 201814 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 30, 2018, 6:15 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2018, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2018, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2018-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1104 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2018-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 9:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham, Lane and 12 more113 min
Jun 30, 3:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more90 min
Jun 30, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more5 hr
Jun 30, 4:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey, Doniphan and 19 more95 min
Jun 30, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more6 hr
Jun 30, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas2 hr
Jun 30, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 11 more7 hr
Jun 30, 12:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 25 more92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.